[caption id="attachment_41861" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Diversity Initiatives Committee is pleased with the success of the Hooliday Dining Program.
[caption id="attachment_41855" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A new documentary exploring national and local energy consumption was screened in Minor Hall last night.
[caption id="attachment_41761" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A first-year student pledging Zeta Psi fraternity was hospitalized after he began seizing and foaming at the mouth because of an electrolyte imbalance from excessive sodium consumption.
The University has announced efforts to reduce the number of maintenance projects postponed because of lack of funding as compared to finished ones, lowering the deferred maintenance ratio. The University is in year seven of a 10-year plan approved by the Board of Visitors to increase the operating maintenance budget.
Thirty-two percent of college students have received some form of mental health counseling in their lifetime, a study released yesterday by NASPA and the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Pennsylvania State University reported. The researchers conducted web-based surveys of a random sample of 21,000 students, the majority of whom were not in treatment for a mental health disorder. The office of Counseling and Psychological Services is unsure whether the survey's findings hold true at the University because only nine percent of the student body visits the office every year, CAPS director Russ Federman said. University students primarily seek counseling for depression, Federman said.
[caption id="attachment_41751" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The scramjet engine can travel at 3,700 miles per hour, and in the future may allow a plane to travel from Hong Kong to New York in only two hours.
[caption id="attachment_41671" align="alignleft" width="256" caption="The state approved a budget Sunday allocating money for enrollment growth but refusing the University's request for millions to aid in repairing the Rotunda.
A study published Monday by online journal BMC Public Health found that people with more years of higher education, especially women, experienced lower blood pressure readings for decades afterward.
[caption id="attachment_41659" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The University's Special Collections Library gained the rare, historical pamphlet at the beginning of last month.
[caption id="attachment_41655" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Representatives from the Local Food Hub led a panel on local dining last night.
As the stars flooded the red carpet for the 83rd Academy Awards, it became clear that red is the new black.
Good news - you no longer have to go to the Big Apple to get a dose of Broadway. In fact, you don't even need to leave Charlottesville.
[caption id="attachment_41556" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Members of the Black Student Alliance rallied Monday to continue drawing attention to the Living Wage Campaign.
The Harrisonburg/Rockingham General District Court set the preliminary hearing date for three Virginia football players Monday.
[caption id="attachment_41544" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Council members discussed plans yesterday to reinstate newspaper distribution to students around Grounds.
The University is participating in a state-wide competition in which students may submit proposals for redistricting, the process of redrawing the political boundaries for the Congressional, House of Delegates and state Senate districts.
Third-year Commerce student Dan Morrison, Student Council's current director of University Relations, was named the president-elect with 3,861 votes, defeating third-year College student Evan Shields.
University students elected 23 Honor Committee representatives yesterday for the upcoming term. The new members will take office after Spring Break at a retreat where the chair and executive committee will be elected internally. Elected representatives for the College include third-year students Brandon Kist, Remy Wheat, Ellie Perkins, Alex Eschenroeder and Liz Rosenberg. Current College representative Sarah Munford said the five incoming representatives will bring forth new ideas. "There is a good balance of different experiences between the five of them that they've had in Honor, so they bring a lot of good perspectives and backgrounds," Munford said. Eschenroeder's election platform was based on sustaining community engagement.
The University Board of Elections announced the 13 elected representatives for the University Judiciary Committee last night in Jefferson Hall on the West Range.
Two Honor Committee referenda were validated last night, further clarifying the Committee's constitution. The referenda were passed with a large majority vote.
